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Video Friday: Automotive Artistry

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ABB ] Working closely with users and therapists, EPFL spin-off Emovo Care has developed a light and easy-to-attach hand exoskeleton for people unable to grasp objects following a stroke or accident.

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Road Test: 2022 Chrysler Pacifica Limited Plug-in Hybrid

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Clean Fleet Report, on an all in-town test loop, never exceeding 45 mph, and encountering many stop lights, achieved 46.2 Clean Fleet Report would like to see an EV on/off button, so the battery charge can be saved and used when needed, such as in the city where running on electricity is far more efficient than using gasoline.

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Road Test: 2021 Chrysler Pacifica Plug-in Hybrid

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Clean Fleet Report, on an all in-town test loop never exceeding 45 mph and encountering many stop lights, experienced a far greater all-electric range of 46.2 Conversely, when on the highway, having the option to turn off the EV mode and run the gasoline hybrid motor will return the most efficient driving. New York City to Toledo?

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

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Jenkins: We must at least be able to speak to society’s concerns, beyond just “Do the lights stay on?” Jenkins: Expanding the grid means that when one part of the grid is struggling with an extreme event, it can rely on its neighbors. A year ago, we weren’t even having this conversation.

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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

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The Sutherland brothers, through a connection of their mother’s, began visiting Edmund Berkeley in New York City from their home in Scarsdale while Ivan was still in grade school. At the time, Berkeley was establishing himself as a leading author, publisher, and consultant for the new world of digital computers.

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

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Burlesque artist Ann Corio was among the celebrities targeted by an illegal wiretapping operation in New York City in 1955. Some—like the burlesque artist Ann Corio , whose phone conversations were recorded in a dragnet search for incriminating information on prominent midtown residents—were the targets of blackmail.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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He used Superpaint to make a videotape called “Vidbits” that was later shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The first version of Smalltalk was written as the result of a chance conversation between Kay, Ingalls, and Ted Kaehler, another PARC researcher. Every few years the Xerox Corp.

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